Issued: 0530hrs Saturday 09 March 2024
Duty forecaster: John

fog and frost overnight

Saturday
Cloudy with rain prolonged and often heavy fringing western and southwestern France, Atlantic coastal Spain and Portugal and into western Medittereanen persisting through the morning with sunshine and blustery showers following through into the afternoon, whilst heavy bursts of rain move into southern and western France and Spain with scattered showers across central France France. Temperatures 10 to 12C for France, 15C across Spain. Italy and across Adriatic to Solvenia through to Albania, including Hungary, Serbia Macedonia cloudy for much of the day with some prolonged often heavy outbreaks of rain giving way to sunshine and showers, these frequent and often heavy, temperatures 10 to 15C. A mix of sunshine and showers across Belgium, Netherlands to Denmark Denmark. Cloudy to start for Switzerland, Austria, Germanany across to Poland, Belarus to Estonia with patchy fog and low cloud. Cloud will lift and tend to break to give sunshine during the afternoon, temperatures 6 to 12C. Remaing cold across all of Scandanavia with temperatures below 0C though dry some patchy cloud and sunshine along Baltic coast. Farther south into Turkey and Greece a mix of sunshine and frequent showers 12 to 15C. Rain will persist overnight into Spain, France and later into Switzerland and Austria and Alpine Italy. Elsewhere showers will ease and the night though cloudy mainly dry

Sunday
Remaining changeable for France to Portugal Spain, Austria and Switzerland with further periods of prolonged often heavy rain as a slow moving thoug deepening area of low pressure moves from Biscay inland into France during the day, with rain circulating west to east through the day into Italy, Solvenia, Bosnia, Croatia to Albania, Albania temperatures 10 to 12C. Dry though cloudy across Poland, to Estonia, to Ukraine with occassional outbreaks of rain. temperatures 5 to 8C. Fine and mainly dry for Scandanavia with temperatures mainly below 0C though up to 5C for southern and Baltic fringes. Cloud with further outbreaks of rain will become widespread into the evening and overnight from France to Poland, Switzerland and Austria and into Hungary Hungary